the only group affected by cold weahter in terms of belief about climate change is the 30 percent of the population who distrust scientists. And then they only consider how the most recent season compares to the previous three years in terms of worldwide temperatures, he said.If this winter is unusually cold, he said, you would expect to see a small drop in the percentage of people who think global warming is happening. People don't use their local temperatures as a benchmark, he said. They are not dodos. Deniers are on the fringe. I think it's difficult to keep sight of that.

The misguided etihcs thread is completely off target in many ways. It takes a micro view of a global problem. I had thought that I was doing the right thing by selling properties in 2006 and 2007. It was my intention to move to Spain. I want to retire in Morocco. My first indication something was wrong was in Trulillo Peru. In 2003 you could buy a house there for $35K, condos in city were about the same. Today $90K is more normal, but there are very few jobs that pay that kind of money. Loans are a new thing since 1998. In Spain, while loans have always been around few qualified. Condos that sold for $60K are now $180K. Again, jobs are scarce and pay lower than qualification.The promise that technology would bring better paying jobs never materialized. High finance seemed to be the money maker, and when the money was made, the jobs were gone. Construction stopped and the economies went back to normal. So for all the people who bought, or invested world wide what will be the future? All those profits you see today, what will they be worth when the global economy stalls because people have to pay off these mortgages? What about the people who bought this past year, here, in the United States, with good FICO scores and 20% down? Those people are stuck for many, many years to come while the global Real Estate market place winds down. Rate this comment: 0 0

I share this to make all of you laugh at me. This is intentional. It gives me great saoctfaitisn to see an individual become like a rockhard erection before it gets cleanly sliced off by a Shogun blade. I am a big advocate of trial by fire. Have at it ;-)April 2010: Bilderberg hopes to keep the global recession going for at least a year, according to an international financial consultant who deals personally with many of them. This is because, among several reasons, Bilderberg still hopes to create a global â€śtreasury departmentâ€ť under the United Nations. Bilderberg first undertook this mission at its meeting last spring in Greece, but the effort was blocked by nationalists in Europe and the United States. Nationalists objected to surrendering sovereignty to the UN. The global elite are conspiring to send oil prices crashing through the $200 dollar a barrel mark as part of an organized agenda to hike profits, bring about a global economic crash and torpedo the middle class, and they're not afraid to attack Iran as a means of achieving their goal. By pushing peak oil theories and tying them in with the man-made global warming fraud, Bilderberg seeks to jack up oil prices to the point where the living standards of the middle class become unsustainable and the west is lowered into second world status while elitists reap the financial and political bounty. A military attack on Iran is also essential for the globalists to kick-start an economic collapse coupled with a massive hike in oil prices. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told a French TV station yesterday that the world should prepare for war with Iran as rhetoric around the possibility of conflict grows bellicose. Experts have predicted that should an attack occur, Iran would immediately cease oil exports, pushing the price per barrel well beyond $100 almost immediately, inflating gasoline prices and kicking off a worldwide energy crisis and a recession. From June 2009: Depression or a prolonged stagnation? (Stated as such in the pre-meeting booklet sent out to attendees.) Bilderberg is looking at two options: Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline, and poverty or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency. Rate this comment: 0 0